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Chapter 242: Chapter 0242: The Truth (Four more updates)_1
 

Just as a palm strike was about to hit Ye Xiong, who seemed to be at his last breath, he suddenly drew his sword across his chest.

Thud!

The palm strike did not hit Ye Xiong’s chest; instead, Thirteen’s hand was slashed.

If it weren’t for his quick reflex to withdraw his hand, the blade would have gone right through his palm.

Retreating several meters away, Thirteen stared at Ye Xiong with wide eyes.

“You’re not injured?”

“What do you think?” Ye Xiong stood up.

It was only then that He Mengji reacted, angrily rebuking, “Thirteen, what the hell is wrong with you?”

“Don’t you understand by now? He’s not Thirteen at all.” Ye Xiong stared at the man in front of him and said coldly, “I’m right, aren’t I, Mister Ghost?”

Suddenly, Thirteen burst into boisterous laughter, a strange voice sounding that was not Ghost’s.

“If I were the master, do you think you could have hurt me?”

Thirteen placed his hand on his face and tore at it ferociously, and in an instant, an unfamiliar face of a man in his late twenties appeared before everyone.

He Mengji was stunned.

The An Family Sisters were stunned.

The three of them could never have dreamt that Thirteen had been substituted long ago.

“Who exactly are you, and where is Thirteen?” He Mengji asked anxiously.

“Telling you won’t make a difference, since none of you will be leaving this cave alive. I am Ghost’s senior apprentice, called Ghost Face. As for the Thirteen you mentioned, he’s long been knocked out by my men. Whether he’s still alive, I don’t know,” said Ghost Face.

“When exactly did you infiltrate our group?” Angel asked.

“Since you saw through my disguise, you must know when I joined you,” said Ghost Shadow, his gaze falling on Ye Xiong.

“In the forest, when those four disappeared and then returned, I began to suspect. Why did they merely lead them away without harming them? From that point, I felt something was off. Upon questioning, the three of them spoke, but you remained silent. That’s when I started to suspect you. Of course, it was merely a suspicion. You were clever to target Thirteen, because he speaks the least among us. Even if silent, no one would suspect him, so I wasn’t certain.”

“Throughout our journey, you acted within the bounds of normalcy, without any slip-ups. But just now, you gave yourself away. When He Mengji came to help me, you did not come forward. Perhaps you didn’t know, but in the real Thirteen’s heart, He Mengji’s life is more important than his own. Could he really stand idly by and watch He Mengji in danger with indifference?”

“So you’ve been suspecting me all along?” Ghost Shadow asked.

“The calluses on your palm are several times thicker than those of an ordinary person’s, obviously the mark of practicing an unusual martial arts form. Those corpses in the forest, they were all your doing, weren’t they? How about letting me test your metal wire technique?” Ye Xiong said icily.

“I didn’t expect you to discern even my martial arts skills. Usually, I give you some consideration, but now you’ve fought a fierce battle with the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast and suffered not insignificant injuries. Do you think you stand a chance against me?”

“You’re calling this mutated gene wolf the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast? Do you think I’m a fool?” Ye Xiong retorted.

Ghost Shadow trembled all over, his eyes revealing extreme shock.

As though he hadn’t noticed Ghost Shadow’s expression, Ye Xiong continued, “Actually, there is no such thing as the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast. The Thunder Mountain Divine Beast was a fabrication by you folks to keep the people of Miaojiang away and outsiders from coming in. In this way, your laboratory wouldn’t be discovered. Am I right, Mister Ghost Shadow?”

“What are you talking about?” He Mengji’s mind struggled to catch up.

“Inside this forbidden area lies not the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast, but the secret genetic research base of the Beast Organization in Huaxia Country. The giant wolf you saw just now isn’t the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast, it’s just a mutant wolf they created,” Ye Xiong explained.

He Mengji was dumbfounded.

The An Family Sisters were also dumbfounded.

They had heard of the Beast Organization, rumored to have its own gene research base within Huaxia Country, but they never could have imagined it would be in Thunder Mountain, and that it used the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast as cover.

But then again, what better cover could there be than these.

“How did you find out?” Ghost Shadow’s eyes were fixed on Ye Xiong, staring intently.

“During my investigation, I asked people in the surrounding villages. Not a single one recognized the guardians of the forbidden land, and some said they knew some in the past but later all became unrecognizable. Think about it, if the forbidden land really protected the Miaojiang Divine Beast, wouldn’t some of the villagers recognize those people?” Ye Xiong said.

“Just based on that, you knew this was our base?” Ghost Shadow was skeptical.

“Those details made me suspect the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast, so I took the time to decrypt the code left by Skeleton after his death. After decrypting it, I got eight characters: Thunder Mountain Divine Beast, organization base.”

He Mengji finally understood why Ye Xiong had suddenly left when everyone was discussing earlier; such an important event had occurred.

“From that moment on, I understood that Ghost’s real purpose for sending me to seek the Thunder Mountain Divine Beast was not to obtain Divine Beast genes. He just wanted to lure me here, capture me, and obtain the First Generation Gene Warrior gene from me in order to develop a batch of Second Generation Gene Warriors. Am I right?”

“If you knew all along, why would you still enter the cave with me? Have you lost your mind?” Ghost Shadow sneered coldly.

“If I didn’t enter the cave with you, how would my men seek reinforcements? If I’m not wrong, Dragon Group’s large force should have almost reached the cave entrance by now.”

The coldness came from the bottom of the heart.

The An Family Sisters, An Ji and An Le, were oblivious to everything. They just followed the missions given by Ghost, never expecting such a huge conspiracy to be hidden within.

If Ghost Shadow’s makeup skills were incredibly crafty, and Ghost’s scheming was chilling to the heart, then Ye Xiong’s ability to endure silently was equally shocking to them.

He had known all this all along and yet he could act as if he knew nothing.

It was like a game played by two greats, with the two sisters merely pawns to them.

Oh, how complex are human hearts?

Where’s the trust between people?

At this moment, outside the cave, a thunderous shout along with screams came, mixed with gunfire.

Without a doubt, Vermilion Bird and Chen Xiao had arrived with Minister Jiang and were on the offensive.

Ghost Shadow’s eyes darted as he quickly fled deeper inside.

“Think you can escape that easily?”

Ye Xiong kicked a pebble, shooting it towards Ghost Shadow, and at the same time, his body swiftly followed close behind, instantly appearing behind Ghost Shadow.

Whiz!

A faint sound arose, and Ye Xiong felt his hand entangled with something—on closer inspection, it was a metal wire slightly thicker than a hair.

Remembering the bodies in the forest, he could imagine that this metal wire was no ordinary thing.

The Cold Ink Dagger lightly flicked, cutting the metal wire.

Continuous whizzing sounds came as countless metal wires danced in the air.

Ye Xiong didn’t dare to be careless; being entwined by the metal lines could mean dismemberment.

The Cold Ink Dagger moved swiftly, cutting all the metal wires.

Only then did he notice that Ghost Shadow had a hidden weapon the size of a fist in his hand. It seemed that those metal wires were all launched from this hidden weapon.

“You think you’re so capable, but it turns out you’re relying on just a small device. With these tricks, you think you can capture me?” Ye Xiong leaped towards him.